Arkangrlngr valves



UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIcE.

WM. D. TABER, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

ARRANGING VALVES, 85C., FOR PUMPS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 5,046, dated April 3, 1847.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM D. TABER, of thecity'of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, haveinvented an Improvement in the Mode of Constructing F orcs-Pumps; and Ido hereby decla-re that the following is a full and exact description ofthe same, reference being had to the aocompanying drawings, making partof this specification.

Figure 1, in the accompanying drawing represents a double acting forcepump. l have selected it fora better illustration of my improvement,although that is applicable to other kinds.

In this drawing A, denotes the cylinderV closed at the top with a headthrough which at C, the piston rod passes. D is a pipe opening near thetop of one side with the upper part of the cylinder, and communicatingat its bottom, like that of the cylinder with the water chamber E, E, onwhich they are placed. That part of the chamber designated as E, isdivided by a longitudinal partition into two compartments in one ofwhich is the passage way to the cylinder and the suction valve H, and

in the other the passage way to the side pipe with a suction valve likethat at H, and placed opposite to it, both being directly over thesuction pipe S, which at its junction with the two valve seats isexpanded sufficiently to occupy all the spacebelow them. The chamber Eis separated from E by a transverse partition G, placed o-n an angle forthe easier closing of the valve I, which is placed on it at the side ofa similar one at the end of the other compartment. Each of these beingraisedby the expulsion of the water from the cylinder at the same timethat the suction valve is forced down, it passes off through the pipe K,thus rendering the operation of the pump complete.

J is a covering (which may be in one o-r ywater to -pass 0H freely whenthe valve is forced open. In this way the liability of the valves tobecome frozen down is materially lessened. Y

In Fig. 2 a, n, represent a oontrivance to which the eduction valve I isatt-ached or against which it is pressed, and which serves to keep thatvalve in its place in the chamber, being held down by the bonnet orcovering J.

In Fig. 3, m, m, m, represent a contrivance for holding'down the suctionvalve H, in its place, being pressed upon by the covering J and keptfrom moving laterally by grooves or guides in the walls of the waterchamber.

Fig. 4, a'ords a perspective view of the pump of which Fig. l is atransverse plan. The same characters apply to both figures.

l/Vhat I claim 'as-my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The employment of a cover to the valves of a pump, by the removal of.which the valves will be released and access had to them combined witha contrivance that, by the bearing of the cover, may serve to keep thevalves in their places, whether this cover and contrivance for holdingthe valves be in one or in several parts.

WILLIAM D. TABER. Witnesses T. C. DoNN, J. F. WcLnARD.

